 Offering a menu that is at once elegant and accessible, and located in a prime downtown location adjacent to the Galleria Park Hotel, Midi pulls a consistent lunch and dinner crowd. Billed as a “California brasserie,” the menu showcases executive chef Michelle Mah’s ability to execute sophisticated French-inspired dishes, such as chicken confit served on a bed of warm frisée and escarole topped with a deep-fried duck egg with a soft yolk. Not to be overlooked, however, is the menu’s simpler fare, such as a chilled poached prawn salad: the sweetness of the prawns pairs nicely with the tartness of a creamy caper dressing and generous sprinkling of pine nut-levain breadcrumbs. Midi pursues both the Union Square and Financial District’s lunchtime crowds with the cleverly devised Midi quartet: four miniature-size courses (soup, salad, entrée and dessert) served on one sleek plate divided into four separate compartments. Mah doubles as the restaurant’s dessert chef and shows she has the chops to do so, executing seasonal selections such as cherry verjus sorbet or a timeless chocolate pot de crème which has as an entry point a dense layer of butter caramel sprinkled with sea salt.
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